What is recorded here

Killarney’s oldest visible road marker still stands beside a narrow track on Mangerton Mountain, its oval base carrying a smaller loose stone cairn like a chimney pot. People may have built the larger shape to mark the way through rough pasture and the smaller shape to honour someone or something remembered at that exact spot. The mountain wind still moves across both stone heaps, keeping the boundary between road and memory sharp.

In rough hill pasture, on the NW side of a trackway (KE074-032----), on the NW-facing slope of Mangerton Mountain in Killarney National Park. An oval cairn (7.2m NW-SE; 6.8m NE-SW; H 0.45m) of compressed stones with a circular cairn (diam. 1.4m; H 0.78m) of loose stones on top. The monument is indicated on the E side of a trackway on the 1895 OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

Neolithic passage tomb, dating to approximately 3500–2500 BCE. It is significant as part of the early megalithic tradition in the Killarney area, reflecting prehistoric funerary and ritual practices in the region.

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